When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill.